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Scans of the next month page of the new issue of PC Gamer (UK!) have been circling the the electric-internet gossip-tree. It looks like this:
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Other than that, we’re pretty much left with speculation until April 10th. What are the races? Will one finally be the Tyranids? Will it share more in common with Company of Heroes than trad Dawn of War? How will it compare to Starcraft 2? All will, clearly, be revealed but until then: Speculation Comment Thread Engine go!

I’d still like to see a more traditional WH40K war game, more along the lines of the Total War/Myth series.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the RTS games, I just think it would be more accurate in that style.

I want Warhammer with all the bells attached. And I mean both planet side wars and tactical engagements in space. Let’s put the whole mithology to use. Let’s have Nyds. Let’s get some more Space Chapters in the fray at the same time. More regiments. Some diplomatic options. Intrigue. Espionage. Assasination. More immersion.

@Stew: Dear god that would consume my life. I think I would have to finally realise my patent for the “Gamer’s Colostomy Bag”.
Someone tell the Creative Assembly that they’re missing out on a massive opportunity.

I would so wish that DoW 2 would be more like Company Of Heroes, and so wish that it would feature Tyrannids at last…
What i don’t quite get, tough, is why would there be a new extension for DoW, and then a DoW 2. Feels a little redundant, doesn’t it ?

A Masters of Orion meets Total War meets Warhammer 40k. A Dark Crusade-esque campaign per planet to conquer it. Control multiple armies so many campaigns can be played at once. Purge your border worlds of the genestealer uprising, or something. Oh, oh, maybe being able to board massive space hulks to battle the enemy and take over them and such too… I’m going to be disappointed aren’t I?

Oh god don’t make it like Total War for chrissakes.. that would be bloody boring! I’ve loved DoW ever since the original was released. I’ve played a lot of RTS but this is the only one that keeps me coming back again and again and again..

If I had one wish it would be to be able to mix in a few “Epic Scale” missions complete with Titans. Not likely I know, but I can dream..

I always played tabletop Epic rather than straight 40K because I loved the thought of campaigning rather than skirmishing. Rather than Total Warhammer, how about a mix of DoW and SupCom? Screen straddling Titans that actually straddle the screen? I still have my old Imperator model somewhere….

Relic are one of the few full price developers I have trust in. The others being Valve, Blizzard and Irrational. As such I feel I can get a bit of enthusiasm for this. Also, the nids weren’t in DoW because they wouldn’t balance with the others. They’d essentially be a zerg rush. If the nids are in all the other groups will need to be remade.

The one aspect of Total War I’d want is to seperate construction, recruitment and battles. But that’s more the fact that I seem to suck at a managing a base but always win when it comes to the actual fighting. But I guess that’s because I can’t memorise fifty short-cut keys.

Also, is it just me or has DoW completely lost it’s cover mechanic at some point? Give us it back Relic.

Um Lightning Claws? The greatest weapons ever and still un represented (unless i missed something). Maybe the new one will be called ‘Dawn of War: Lightning Claws’ and i’ll spend the rest of my life in my room giggling like a child as my terminators ‘rip shit up’.

DoW2 would be very nice if they allowed us to actually digitally paint all our troops properly (meaning not hat half arsed attempt in DoW)

I used to spend hours making skins for Quake models. I’d love to do a proper skinning job on a DoW army.

Aside from that I’d like CoH’s facing fire feature please and something that makes me get as excited as DoW did when it was released but stops short of being such a horrendous dissappointment as was the case when Soulstorm was released.

It’s not that it was rubbish it’s just that it was meh.

In fact Soulstorm could almost become a dictionary definition of “Meh!”

I’d actually like to see a more basic port of tabletop WH40k to the digital realm. With things like being able to build your army ahead of time, custom paint it, custom equip soldiers with weaponry, maybe even be able to swap out parts from other models for greater customization in the classic model-maker fashion.

One of the big draws to tabletop is being able to look down and say “Dude, this is MY army.” If Relic can capture that, then I think the game’ll do well.

Man, is this you being a big ol’ flirtatious tease; I thought you and Alec got to visit Relic HQ in quasi-recent memory?

Anyway. Imperial Guard acting like the Company of Heroes infantry and tanks would be marvellous. As would Tyranids swarming around and up and launching themselves off ruined Imperial architecture, combined with Dawn of War’s signature brutal melee synchronised kills. It was the original that got me to stop mucking about with my spare time and using it productively to teach myself proper 3d modelling and animation; so it would be somewhat of an understatement to say that the prospect of a sequel gets me a little excited in a manner that games rarely do nowadays.

I love the Warhammer 40k universe but find DoW boring. CoH on the other hand I love in spite of finding wwii pretty boring.

Great ideas in here.
WiC style troops as opposed to base building. Yes please.
CoH directional facing for heavy bolters, etc. great idea.
CoH cover system. Yeah its good but could actually work properly.
CoH would be moddable for 40k as the way the infantry and vehicles interact is very similar to the way 40k is supposed to work, just the lack of melee combat is a problem.